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Visier, a people analytics software company, has launched Vee, its first generative AI assistant that allows managers, HR leaders, and employees to type natural language queries into commonly used apps and receive near-instant insights about their teams.

Vee transforms conversational queries into Visier’s query language and provides accurate and succinct narrative answers without depending on proprietary customer data.

Vee can be used to generate explanatory summaries from data visualizations, and build reports automatically, converting intricate people analytics into easy-to-understand responses and narratives.

Visier’s new #askvisier command allows managers to gain valuable insights into their teams and departments simply by asking Vee questions in their regular workflow.

Visier guarantees the most advanced security model and permissions available, ensuring that the results provided by Vee are only available to authorized end-users based on their assigned security model and associated permissions.

Visier also announced Smart Compensation, a product designed to streamline the complex compensation planning process using a user-friendly, data-driven approach.

Visier was founded in 2010 and has grown to reach over 25,000 customers in 75 countries, including BASF, Bridgestone, Electronic Arts, McKesson, and Merck KGaA.

Vee is currently available for customer and partner preview and will be widely available in autumn 2023.

Chinese cyberespionage group UNC3886 has been exploiting a VMware ESXi zero-day vulnerability to escalate privileges on guest virtual machines, according to cybersecurity firm Mandiant.

UNC3886 has been using malicious vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs) to install backdoors on ESXi hypervisors and gain command execution, file manipulation, and reverse shell capabilities.

The European Parliament is voting on the Artificial Intelligence Act.

This Act is the first of its kind and goes beyond voluntary codes.

Companies must comply with rules requiring the public to be informed about risks associated with AI products.

Fines for breaking the rules could be up to €30m or 6% of a company’s global annual turnover.

The Act will not come into force until at least 2025.

API calls are growing twice as fast as HTML traffic, making APIs a prime target for new security solutions aimed at protecting customer data, with US businesses incurring over $23 billion in losses from API-related breaches in 2022, and 76% of cybersecurity professionals admitting to experiencing an API-related security incident.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a disruption that affected several websites, including those of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Boston Globe, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Delta, The Associated Press, The Verge, and New York transit agency MTA.

The outage was caused by an issue with a subsystem responsible for capacity management for AWS Lambda, which caused errors directly for customers and indirectly through the use by other AWS services.

India’s government has threatened to shut down Twitter unless the social media giant complies with orders to restrict accounts that are critical of the government’s handling of farmer protests, according to co-founder Jack Dorsey.

Dorsey also alleged that India threatened the company with raids on employees if it did not comply with government requests to take down certain posts.

Deputy Minister for Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a top-ranking official in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, called Dorsey’s assertions an “outright lie”.

A US judge has granted the FTC’s request to temporarily block Microsoft’s acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard and set a hearing next week.

Based on the late-June hearing, the federal court will decide whether a preliminary injunction is necessary.

Microsoft and Activision must submit legal arguments opposing a preliminary injunction by June 16, while the FTC must reply on June 20.

Activision declined to comment Tuesday.

Microsoft said Tuesday “accelerating the legal process in the US will ultimately bring more choice and competition to the gaming market.”

The FTC has argued that the transaction would give Microsoft’s video game console Xbox exclusive access to Activision games, leaving Nintendo consoles and Sony Group’s PlayStation out in the cold.

Microsoft’s bid to acquire the “Call of Duty” video game maker was approved by the EU in May, but British competition authorities blocked the takeover in April.

Microsoft has said the deal would benefit gamers and gaming companies alike, and has offered to sign a legally binding consent decree with the FTC to provide “Call of Duty” games to rivals including Sony for a decade.